Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
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Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
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- Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
- Title remainder
- the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Collins
- Title variation
- Blood and ivy
- Subject
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- Murder
- Parkman, George, 1790-1849
- History
- Murder -- Massachusetts | Boston -- Case studies
- Webster, John White, 1793-1850
- Massachusetts -- Boston
- Harvard University -- History -- 19th century
- Parkman, George, 1790-1849
- Harvard University
- Webster, John White, 1793-1850
- True crime stories
- 1800-1899
- Case studies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Traces the scandalous murder of a Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt
- "On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered hefty rewards as leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never even left the Medical School building alive. His shocking discoveries in a chemistry professor's laboratory engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. John White Webster. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbery, and dismemberment--of Harvard's greatest doctors investigating one of their own, for a murder hidden in a building full of cadavers--it became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt. Paul Collins brings nineteenth-century Boston back to life in vivid detail, weaving together newspaper accounts, letters, journals, court transcripts, and memoirs from this groundbreaking case. Rich in characters and evocative in atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new science and old money in one of America's greatest murder mysteries."--Dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 364.152/3092
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6534.B6
- LC item number
- C65 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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